Author Topic: Termite Mounds (Read 5864 times)

Plynkes · « **on:** February 08, 2009, 01:45:10 PM »

The surprise Christmas present hit this year was Far Cry 2, which my brother bought for me out of the blue, and it has proven very addictive...

So anyway, I was wondering around this fictional slice of Africa and found some rather picturesque termite mounds. I liked them so much I decided to build my own.

Now I don't normally really do terrain, but inspired by some of the stuff I've seen here I thought I'd give the old CD terrain thing a try. Bear in mind I'm pretty new at this type of thing, so don't laugh too much.

Old CD, some dead pens and tops from old glue tubes.

A bit of Miliput to create the shapes.

Them some Polyfilla for texture, and some stones on the ground.

The finished article with paint and a bit of grass.

Some Germans turn up to investigate the new terrain feature.

dampfpanzerwagon · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2009, 02:22:43 PM »

Inspiring terrain piece and modelling.

Regards

Tony

Mad Doc Morris · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2009, 02:40:16 PM »

Okay, come off it! This is an excellent idea, very atmospheric piece of terrain and executed very well. Congrats!

Grimm · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2009, 02:54:47 PM »

AHHHHHHHHH thet is a good idea must copy that !!

gamer Mac · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2009, 07:08:48 PM »

Me too

Helen · « **Reply #5 on:** February 08, 2009, 07:31:56 PM »

Lovely work Dylan.

Helen

Argonor · « **Reply #6 on:** February 08, 2009, 07:44:06 PM »

OMG that is the most ridiculous piece of **** I've ever seen

Seriously:
Fantastic idea with the pens to create the basic shapes. What kind of reddish brown did you use for the earth??

Hitman · « **Reply #7 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:01:39 PM »

Great stuff. I recently started keeping those blue lids from my used up Crazy-Glue Gel, in case I ever came up with an idead to use them. You have just given me my first idea!! Thanks. Great work for a so-called beginner!!
Thanks for sharing.

Plynkes · « **Reply #8 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:07:10 PM »

Thanks, folks.

Argonor, you cheeky monkey, the base colour is GW Bestial Brown, but messed about with various washes and drybrushed highlights. Oddly, the camera has disagreed with it. With the naked eye it looks much less dark, and not so red. Not sure why that is.

Svennn · « **Reply #9 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:13:30 PM »

Marvellous. If I'm totally honest the wip shots seemed to bear out your commentary and I couldn't really see where you were going but the final piece really is excellant

Hammers · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2009, 08:20:07 PM »

Cool idea!

The Workbench Moderator Golden Star of Creativity to you, my dear Plynkes.

argsilverson · « **Reply #11 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:25:17 AM »

Plynkes:
the wizard of Africa centered modeller and gamer!

What's up next: Kilimadjaro maybe or the whole lake Victoria eeerr..... Wittelsbach!

very nice termites mounds, and very realistic, too! Nice grass,too!
The proportions are excellent. Note that some can reach the height of 4 meters!!!
Also they obstruct line of vision, as well!
colour: very nice!

[terracotta shades should be also suitable. usually soils in those semi-arid tropical and subtropical areas of Africa are rather more reddish, since the contain increased percentage of iron. but this doesnot spoil the general effect! ]

Those germans, excellent, too!
Have we seen them before? I cannot recall them, by heart.

dodge · « **Reply #12 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:35:40 AM »

Those are great , painted up really well and looks realistic

dodge

Plynkes · « **Reply #13 on:** February 09, 2009, 11:00:56 AM »

Quote from: argsilverson on February 09, 2009, 10:25:17 AM

Those germans, excellent, too!
Have we seen them before? I cannot recall them, by heart.

They've been painted quite a long time, but as they have yet to feature in any games I think that you may be right, and that I haven't photographed them before. They are the command figures for my Schutztruppe Askari.

Dr. The Viking · « **Reply #14 on:** February 09, 2009, 11:18:22 AM »

Nice!

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